By Chris Dorrell The government should press for closer ties with the European Union (EU) as part of a wider push to grow the UK’s services trade, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said today. In a new report, the business group argued that closer ties with the UK’s major trading partners would help deliver the economic growth which the new government has pledged to deliver. “If we’re going to get the growth we need, for London and all regions of the UK, we’ve got start cheerleading our powerhouse services sector,” Rain Newton-Smith, the CBI’s director general said at the business gr…